DOJ response to reporting yesterday from NYT & WP. Get read for more leaks.

[MelissaB]

NEW: DOJ responds to the reporting by @nytimes & @washingtonpost (confirmed by NBC) that some members of the Mueller team say the evidence against President Trump is stronger than AG William Barr let on

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. What about the summaries that Mueller already prepared for the public?

[MelissaB]

4. He doesn't want to release them and doesn't address the issue in the response.

[Jarqui]

2. More Americans than just the Attorney General have security clearance

to read the un-redacted report.

For the national security of the country, it should have been in their hands weeks ago

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. This COVER UP makes Watergate Tapes look like Child's play......

Because , I suspect, this report gets to the bottom of unbridled CORRUPTION on the part of Donald Trump that Robert Mueller handed to Congress to handle. The THERE is there. Pretty sure that reasons for impeachment are clearly laid out.

But if Barr is unwilling to comply with precedence and law, he will be seen as OBSTRUCTING Justice along with the man he swore to protect. Forget the US Constitution.

[Jarqui]

5. Forbes:Attorney General Bill Barr Has Made A Huge Miscalculation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/04/04/attorney-general-bill-barr-has-made-a-huge-miscalculation/#49dd66e2e78b

"One sign of how angry Mueller's team is," wrote lawyer and professor Seth Abramson on Twitter, "is that they appear to be *strongly* implying bad faith on the Attorney General's part, inasmuch as multiple members of the Mueller team told the New York Times they'd provided their own summaries to the AG - which he then promptly *ignored*."
...

Management without credibility is generally doomed to failure, sooner or later. By pushing the bounds of credibility in his initial communique and then assuming he could use his positional power to control how and when he released the rest of the Mueller Report, the attorney general was making a calculation that he could tightly control the message in the president's favor. But in so doing he was also taking a risk of compounding the problem by piling cover-up upon cover-up, scandal upon scandal. His refusal to be transparent has made him a subpoena magnet for the Democrats.
....
o it's disturbing to see the highest lawmaker in the land apparently adding to the mountain of disinformation already existing in these hyper-partisan times. Personally I believe the attorney general made a huge miscalculation in how far he believed he could control the message and push the "spin cycle." He now finds his own reputation on the line. Does he want he remembered as a highly accomplished lawyer with credibility, or a political operative? Attorney general or spin doctor?

Right now I'm afraid the scale is tilting toward the spin side. "He looks like he's protecting his guy," law professor Neal Katyal said last night on MSNBC. (The "guy" of course being the president.) "It's looking even more like a cover-up," Katyal concluded, "and why the report has to be released."

Another well known publication weighs in unfavorably against Barr.

Maybe someone can spank Trump with it ...

[Jarqui]

6. Fun tweet/post on this gets Glenn Greenwald

Link to tweet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/3/1847615/-Glenn-Greenwald-again-seriously-injures-himself-after-going-way-out-on-a-limb-on-the-Mueller-Report